Scottish Rock Garden Club Forum
Specific Families and Genera => Pleione and Orchidaceae => Topic started by: Chuck on June 20, 2012, 04:40:24 AM
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Anyone tried Cyp. californicum. I am currently growing it in perlite, lavarock and pine needles. It came back in the second year from seedlings I bought last year. I also grow Darlingtonia californica in peat and sand and found that the Cypripediums do not like the mix as much as the Darlintonias. I was told that the plants take five years to reach blooming size from seeds.
Anyone have any suggestions to grow them better?
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Hello Chuck,
you are doing well. Your seedlings may benefit from a little food, as the mixture you are using offers none. Give them a little balanced feed, well diluted. I have C. tibeticum at the same stage as yours, and they responded well to feeding.
All you need is patience. :) :) :)
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I use a very diluted fish emulsion every month :).
A friend started cyp. kentuckiense from seed and it took him 12 years to bloom it. Hopefully it does not take me that long.
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I am assuming the seed was started in vitro on sterile medium?
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I am assuming the seed was started in vitro on sterile medium?
I ordered them online from somebody who does flasking. They arrived the last year in sphagnum moss.
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I ordered them online from somebody who does flasking. They arrived the last year in sphagnum moss.
So about three years old at this stage?
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I think they would be three years old then. But they are two years out of flask
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So five years old then? Cyps are about three years old when deflasked.